Re: [EM] Idea Proposal: Listening Democracy

2010-04-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 09:07 PM 4/21/2010, Duane Johnson wrote: This sounds quite interesting, Abd ul-Rahman. Where can I learn about your FA/DP idea? Your discussion here is helpful, but I feel like I am missing out the important prerequisite pieces in order to make sense of it. (I know about delegable proxy,

[EM] MinMax(AWP) and Participation

2010-04-22 Thread fsimmons
In his last message Juho gave an example in which MinMax(wv) fails to satisfy the weak participation criterion that Perez said was satisfied by MinMax. I looked up Perez' proof, and found that he made essential use of complete rankings, in which case margins and wv give the same results. Joho's

[EM] MinMax and Smith

2010-04-22 Thread fsimmons
There may be an advantage to a Condorcet efficient method that doesn't always elect from Smith: it may decrease the incentive to bury, since the purpose of the burial strategy is to get a non-Smith member into the top cycle. However that may be, we can easily and seamlessly enhance MinMax(AWP) to

Re: [EM] Idea Proposal: Listening Democracy

2010-04-22 Thread Michael Allan
Duane Johnson wrote: This sounds quite interesting, Abd ul-Rahman. Where can I learn about your FA/DP idea? ... (I know about delegable proxy, but haven't heard about FA/DP specifically). DP may have other applications, too, aside from FA. Here's a proposal for primary elections and primary